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There is a growing need for vehicle positioning information to support Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Connectivity (V2X), and Automated Driving (AD) features. These range from a need for road determination (<5 meters), lane…

Robust and accurate localization for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is an essential capability to achieve autonomous, long-range flights. Current methods either rely heavily on GNSS, face limitations in visual-based localization due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Yao He , Ivan Cisneros , Nikhil Keetha , Jay Patrikar , Zelin Ye , Ian Higgins , Yaoyu Hu , Parv Kapoor , Sebastian Scherer

Stable and accurate tracking is essential for marine robotics, yet Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals vanish immediately below the sea surface. Traditional alternatives suffer from error accumulation, high computational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Shuo Wen , Edwin Meriaux , Mariana Sosa Guzmán , Zhizun Wang , Junming Shi , Gregory Dudek

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are pivotal for future 6G non-terrestrial networks, yet their high mobility creates a complex coupled optimization problem for beamforming and trajectory design. Existing numerical methods suffer from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Ruiqi Wang , Essra M. Ghoura , Omar Alhussein , Yuzhi Yang , Jing Ren , Shizhong Xu , Sami Muhaidat

Network-based Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) underpin critical infrastructure and autonomous systems, yet typically rely on centralized processing hubs that limit scalability, resilience, and latency. Here we report a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Xue Xian Zheng , Xing Liu , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Global Navigation Satellite Systems enable precise localization and timing even for highly mobile devices, but legacy implementations provide only limited support for the new generation of security-enhanced signals. Inertial Measurement…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Tore Johansson , Marco Spanghero , Panos Papadimitratos

The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is proliferating as they are effective, flexible and cost-efficient devices for a variety of applications ranging from natural disaster recovery to delivery of goods. We investigate a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-30 Ali Rahmati , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Yavuz Yapici , Xiaofan He , Ismail Guvenc , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)-based positioning plays a crucial role in various applications, including navigation, transportation, logistics, mapping, and emergency services. Traditional GNSS positioning methods are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Adyasha Mohanty , Grace Gao

With the rapid growth of the low-altitude economy, UAVs have become crucial for measurement and tracking in patrol systems. However, in GNSS-denied areas, satellite-based localization methods are prone to failure. This paper presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Tao Liu , Kan Ren , Qian Chen

Localization of low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) often relies on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). GNSS are susceptible to both natural disruptions to radio signal and intentional jamming and spoofing by an adversary. A…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Jouko Kinnari , Francesco Verdoja , Ville Kyrki

Relative localization of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms in global navigation satellite system (GNSS) denied environments is essential for emergency rescue and battlefield reconnaissance. Existing methods suffer from significant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Guangyu Lei , Yuqi Ping , Tianhao Liang , Huahao Ding , Tingting Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an integral part of wireless networks, and determining collision-free trajectories for multiple UAVs while satisfying requirements of connectivity with ground base stations (GBSs) is a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy

In the maritime sector, safe vessel navigation is of great importance, particularly in congested harbors and waterways. The focus of this work is to estimate the distance between an object of interest and potential obstacles using a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Jonas le Fevre Sejersen , Rui Pimentel de Figueiredo , Erdal Kayacan

Localization of a radio frequency (RF) transmitter with intermittent transmissions is considered via a group of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with omnidirectional received signal strength (RSS) sensors. This group embarks on an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-09 Farshad Koohifar , Ismail Guvenc , Mihail L. Sichitiu

Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)s have recently become an important instrument for collecting mineral data, enabling more effective and accurate geological investigations. This paper explores the difficulties in mounting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Robel Efrem , Alex Coutu , Sajad Saeedi

This paper investigates the problem of detection and classification of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the presence of wireless interference signals using a passive radio frequency (RF) surveillance system. The system uses a multistage…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-13 Martins Ezuma , Fatih Erden , Chethan Kumar Anjinappa , Ozgur Ozdemir , Ismail Guvenc

Cellular-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems are a promising paradigm to provide reliable and fast Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLoS) communication services for UAV operations. However, such systems are facing a serious GPS…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Y. Dang , C. Benzaid , B. Yang , T. Taleb

Due to the advantages of high mobility and easy deployment, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely applied in both military and civilian fields. In order to strengthen the flight surveillance of UAVs and guarantee the airspace safety,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Yiyang Liao , Ziye Jia , Chao Dong , Lei Zhang , Qihui Wu , Huiling Hu , Zhu Han

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer dynamic trajectory control, enabling them to avoid obstacles and establish line-of-sight (LoS) wireless channels with ground nodes (GNs), unlike traditional ground-fixed base stations. This study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Gitae Park , Kanghyun Heo , Kisong Lee

Jamming devices disrupt signals from the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and pose a significant threat by compromising the reliability of accurate positioning. Consequently, the detection and localization of these interference…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Lucas Heublein , Thorsten Nowak , Tobias Feigl , Jaspar Pahl , Felix Ott